The Iranian Navy plans to build new frigates in the Caspian Sea, a senior commander announced on Sunday.

"The
Islamic Republic of Iran is planning to build new frigates in the
Caspian Sea," Commander of the Iranian Army's 4th Naval Zone Admiral
Khordad Hakimi told reporters in the Northern port city of Anzali today.

He announced the Navy's plans to further develop its equipment in the Caspian Sea.

Hakimi
also underlined that "establishment of order, security, peace and
friendship in the Caspian Sea region is the Navy's strategy".

In
relevant remarks on Monday, Hakimi said that the Iranian Navy planned
to launch one of its advanced home-made destroyers, named Damavand, in
the country's Northern territorial waters in the near future.

"The
destroyer, Damavand, will join the Navy warships in Northern Iran (in
the Caspian Sea) by the end of the current (Iranian) year (which ends
on March 20)," he said.

Tehran
launched an arms development program during the 1980-88 Iraqi imposed
war on Iran to compensate for a US weapons embargo. Since 1992, Iran
has produced its own tanks, armored personnel carriers, missiles and
fighter planes.

Yet,
Iranian officials have always stressed that the country's military and
arms programs serve defensive purposes and should not be perceived as a
threat to any other country.

Navy
Commander Rear Admiral Habibollah Sayyari said on Saturday that the
Iranian Navy is fully capable of manufacturing all its needed military
tools and equipment.

The
commander said that self-sufficiency in producing naval equipment has
given the Iranian Navy strong surface and underwater capabilities both.

“The
joint search and rescue exercise with the Omani Navy will be held in
March 2014”, Sayyari announced while underscoring the importance of
holding wargames in upgrading the might of naval force in defending
Iran's waters.

The
Iranian Navy has accelerated and widened its progress after Supreme
Leader of the Islamic Revolution Ayatollah Seyed Ali Khamenei described
it as "a strategic force".

"Given
the current issues of the world and today's geopolitical conditions of
the world, we should strengthen ourselves in sea and in coast as far as
we can," Ayatollah Khamenei stressed on November 28, 2010, addressing
senior Navy commanders here in Tehran in a ceremony to commemorate the
National Navy Day.

The
leader also stressed that increasing manpower, recruiting talented
personnel and taking innovations and initiatives into action are highly
necessary for the future of the country's naval forces.

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